Dolphins manager Wayne Bennett has called for "patience" amid the incoming franchise's quest to physique a squad up of its inaugural 2023 season.
To date, Melbourne Storm premiership-winner Felise Kaufusi is the club's lone marquee signing, aft agreeing to a three-year deal.
This year's off-season has seen respective stars deed the market, including Brandon Smith, Reed Mahoney, Christian Welch and Tino Fa'asuamaleaui - each of whom person opted against joining the Dolphins contempt links to the club.
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While Smith, who yet joined the Roosters from 2023 onwards, was close to joining the NRL's 17th franchise, Bennett isn't panicking contempt lone having Kaufusi connected the club's books.
The seven-time premiership-winner said it was important the nine built a nine for a "lifetime" and conscionable not 1 season.
"There's a connection called patience and we can't conscionable speech it, we person to unrecorded it astatine the moment," Bennett told The Sydney Morning Herald.
"We'll conscionable beryllium patient. We're not gathering a squad for 1 season, we're gathering a squad for a lifetime.
"It's important that each the decisions are made for the close reasons. That's being patient, that's being imaginativeness making.
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"There's a batch of h2o to travel nether the span yet."
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The Dolphins volition person adjacent year's off-season to motion players arsenic well, and Bennett says there's inactive plentifulness to play out.
"Coaches volition get disgruntled with players passim the season, that benignant of stuff. There's different off-season successful beforehand of us. I'm not fazed," helium added.
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